College Football

Georgia football coach Kirby Smart said Tuesday that he hasn't yet solved the speeding issue that has plagued his team but that he is "constantly looking and searching" for ways to address it.

Last week, freshman outside linebacker Samuel M'Pemba was ticketed for driving 88 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone, according to records from the Oconee County Sheriff's Office. His speeding citation occurred about an hour before Bulldogs receiver Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint made an appearance in court in Athens and pleaded guilty to driving 90 mph in a 45 mph zone.

[Fitzgerald’s attorney Dan] Webb is researching legal strategies and has not filed a lawsuit, but he cited "two different major breach of contract claims" with Northwestern as well as significant reputational damage.

Northwestern has not informed Webb whether it is seeking to withhold the remaining salary on Fitzgerald's 10-year contract signed in January 2021. Fitzgerald is owed more than $40 million from the school.

With only 44 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Jim Brown from Syracuse who wore #44.

Syracuse University from 1954-1956

• College Football Hall of Fame
• 1956 First-Team All-American
• Number 44 Retired at Syracuse
• 43 points against Colgate by scoring six touchdowns and seven PATs
• Finished fifth in Heisman voting in 1956
• 1956 Lambert Trophy winner

Side note if anyone is following these threads: I am posting these the night before so that they can be up all day, but I believe that I got a day ahead at some point in the last week according to https://cfbselect.com/how-many-days-until-college-football-countdown-clock/. I’m going to skip tomorrow night’s post so Jim Brown is going to get two days of remembrance.

With only 45 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Archie Griffin from Ohio State, who wore #45.

Ohio State University from 1972-1975

• College Football Hall of Fame
• Two-time Heisman Trophy winner in 1974 and 1975
• Three-time First Team All-American
• Two-time pick as National Player of the Year
• Four-time Big Ten Conference champion
• Led the Big Ten in rushing three straight years
• Number 45 retired at Ohio State
• One of two players to start four Rose Bowl games in a career

A few days late, but I thought that it was interesting that this is Arizona's top-rated recruit since ESPN/247 have tracked recruiting rankings.

With only 46 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Bob Ferguson from Ohio State, who wore #46.

Ohio State University from 1959-1961

• College Football Hall of Fame
• UPI Player of the Year (1961)
• 1961 Heisman Trophy runner-up
• 1961 Unanimous All-American selection
• Maxwell Award (1961)
• 1961 Ohio State football MVP
• Ohio State football All-Century Team in 2000

With only 47 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Michael Irvin from Miami, who wore #47.

University of Miami (FL) from 1985-1987

• 1987 national champion
• Set Miami records for career receptions, receiving yards, and touchdown receptions
• Florida Sports Hall of Fame

Update:

Northwestern will reconsider penalties for coach Pat Fitzgerald after new details emerged Saturday surrounding allegations of hazing in the football program.

University president Michael Schill, in a letter sent late Saturday to the Northwestern community, wrote that he "may have erred in weighing the appropriate sanction" for Fitzgerald, who began serving a two-week unpaid suspension Friday. Fitzgerald's suspension was among the measures Northwestern announced after concluding the six-month investigation it commissioned into hazing allegations made by an anonymous whistleblower.

Schill will speak with Northwestern's board of trustees and other university leaders to determine a new penalty for Fitzgerald, the team's coach since 2006 and a two-time national defensive player of the year for the Wildcats.

"In determining an appropriate penalty for the head coach, I focused too much on what the report concluded he didn't know and not enough on what he should have known," Schill wrote. "As the head coach of one of our athletics programs, coach Fitzgerald is not only responsible for what happens within the program but also must take great care to uphold our institutional commitment to the student experience. Clearly, he failed to uphold that commitment, and I failed to sufficiently consider that failure in levying a sanction.”

With only 48 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Gale Sayers from Kansas, who wore #48.

University of Kansas from 1962-1964

• College Football Hall of Fame
• Two-time All-American
• 2,000 yards rushing in his junior season

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1146280

Plazz is a 6’5” 290 lb OT that was fomerly committed to Penn State. He is from Mandarin HS in Florida. Welcome to the U!